African Agriculture and Food Systems
Kilimo Kwanza Agriculture First — East Africa March 17, 2026 Trade & Markets · Regional Policy · Women in Agriculture Opinion & Analysis The Women Who Feed Africa Can’t Cross Its Borders. A Quiet Revolution Is Underway. Thousands of small traders — most of them women — power Africa’s food economy every single day. A […]
Tanzania’s MKUMBI II reform agenda promises to transform the business environment across all four Agricultural Growth Corridors. The question is whether the urgency in Dodoma will reach the last mile. Kilimokwanza.org | March 2026 There is a particular kind of meeting that signals a government is serious. Not a workshop with consultants. Not a technical […]
CHONGOLO: TANZANIA READY TO FEED DRC COMMERCIALLY High-level bilateral meeting and grain facility inspection signal imminent maize trade deal between Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa Tanzania has declared its readiness to enter into broad commercial discussions with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), including a potential landmark agreement on food trade, following a high-level diplomatic […]
Why Maasai Honey is Not Parma Ham — Christine Afandi A. Trade Policy · African Development · GI Rights Why Maasai Honey Is Not Parma HamAnd How the EU Can Change That The premium paradox: why Kenya’s Kitui Golden Honey sells for silver — and what it will take to finally fix that. CA Christine […]
AGRIBUSINESS & WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT The Half That Feeds Africa: Women Agripreneurs Step into the Spotlight As AGRA opens applications for its 2026 WAYA Awards, a gathering in Maputo put Africa’s women farmers and agribusiness leaders centre stage — and made the case that unlocking their potential is the continent’s most consequential agricultural investment. By Staff […]
At the Njombe Regional Secretariat, 9 March 2026. AGCOT Board Chairman Dr Ally H. Laay and Board Member Laurean R. Bwanakunu join Regional Commissioner Hon. Anthony Mtaka, AGCOT CEO Geoffrey Kirenga, AGM Chair Mark Magila, and Dr. Lutgart Lenaerts, First Secretary for Agriculture, Climate and Environment at the Royal Norwegian Embassy, following a courtesy call […]
Friday, 6 March 2026 · Established 2010 · Tanzania & East Africa Agriculture Nohémie Mawaka Doesn’t Sell Africa a Dream — She Sells Receipts Nohémie Mawaka left the DRC’s dysfunctional export landscape not to escape it, but to fix it. Her company, Lubembo Co., is building the aggregation infrastructure that turns smallholder harvests into boardroom-grade […]
EXCLUSIVE • FOOD SECURITY • GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT The $100 Billion Harvest: In the largest expansion of its agricultural transformation agenda since its celebrated debut at the World Economic Forum in 2010, Tanzania has activated three new growth corridors spanning 17 regions — a move that could reshape food systems across Africa and redefine the continent’s […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 1st, 2026 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Tanzania Activates Northern, Central, and Mtwara Agricultural Corridors in Biggest Agri Push Since SAGCOT First-phase consultations spanning 17 regions across three new corridors mark the most significant expansion of Tanzania’s agricultural transformation agenda since SAGCOT simultaneously launched at Dar es Salaam and Davos in […]
In rural Kenya, where nearly 40% of the population still lacks improved sanitation, an affordable Japanese-designed toilet solution is quietly transforming communities — one pit latrine at a time. For millions of families across rural Kenya, the daily reality of sanitation is anything but dignified. Open pit latrines attract flies and disease. Handwashing stations are […]